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Wizardry Half dozen:
Bane of the Catholic Forge
Wizardry VI - Bane of the Cosmic Forge Coverart.png
Developer(due south) Sir-Tech
Publisher(s) Sir-Tech
ASCII (Japan)
Nighttime Dive Studios (digital)
Designer(south) David W. Bradley
Series Wizardry
Platform(s) DOS, Amiga, Mac OS, FM Towns, NEC PC-9801, SNES
Release

1990

  • 1990 (DOS, Amiga)
    1991 (Mac, FM Towns, PC-98)
    1995 (Super Famicom)
Genre(s) Role-playing video game
Mode(southward) Unmarried player

Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (originally known as Wizardry: Bane of the Catholic Forge ) is the 6th title in the Wizardry series of role-playing video games. It was the commencement in the trilogy surrounding the Dark Savant, which was followed past Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant and Wizardry 8. Information technology was developed by Sir-Tech Software, Inc. and was released on the Amiga and DOS platforms in 1990 by the aforementioned company, and for the Super Famicom in Nippon in 1995 by ASCII.

Gameplay [edit]

Although based upon previous games in the series, David Bradley completely rewrote the system for this release. This was the offset game in the series to feature full colour graphics.[1] The game was mouse-driven and ran with EGA graphics. It was also ane of the few games in the Wizardry series that would non let characters to be imported from previous games. The character creation and level-up process was more detailed than in previous releases. The player can choose from eleven races and 14 professions.[2] There are multiple skills divided into 3 categories, and magic is divided into 6 schools. Combat as well allowed several different options, such as thrust or bash, depending on the weapon selected.[3]

Wizardry Half-dozen is a first person, tile-based and carte-driven RPG. Its monsters and races are made up of many mythological creatures and people, from the fictitious, to even some existent life races and people. The player may meet Sirens and Charron from Greek mythology, the Amazulu (a group of African warrior women, whose tribal name is derived from the Amazons of Greek legend, and the Zulu of Africa), and fifty-fifty the Caterpillar from Lewis Carroll'southward Alice in Wonderland.

Story [edit]

The player controls a political party of between two and half dozen people from numerous fantasy backgrounds, identical to those plant in Wizardry 7: the Man, Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Hobbit, Faerie, Lizardman, Dracon (a half-Human, half-Dragon), Rawulf (anthropomorphic dogs), Felpurr (anthropomorphic cats) and Mook (aliens that resemble Sasquatch, or the Wookiees from Star Wars). They have come upon a castle that has been abased for over a hundred years, and which is rumored to contain the Catholic Forge, a pen said to command the destiny of fourth dimension and space. Information technology is said that whatever is written with the pen becomes instantly true. Additionally, nobody knows what became of the Male monarch, Queen and Wizard who once lived there. In one case the party enters the gates of the castle, the gates shut behind them, making escape incommunicable.

The party visits many exotic locations. The ruins of the castle and its turrets have become overrun by creatures such as giant rats, vampire bats and carnivorous vines, and its basement has go a den of thieves, pirates and other ne'er-do-wells. Once the party finds a path through the castle and into the mountains beyond it, they meet the hostile giants and dwarves who mine the stone there, and a tribe of warrior women chosen the Amazulu in the jungles nearby.

In the mountains, they gratis the spirit of the lost Sorcerer, Xorphitus, who used the Cosmic Forge to learn everything there was to know in the universe. By doing then, his essence was split into ii separate beings: the ghostly vision that the party meets, who seems reflective and benevolent, and his insane and tearing concrete self who appears much later. Xorphitus explains that this was because the nature of man was to be divided, and to know all things constituted a breach of this natural law. As such, he was naturally separated into two beings, each containing half of the universe's knowledge. He warns the party not to utilise the pen every bit he did, because using the Cosmic Forge outside of the Cosmic Circle would cause the user to suffer its Bane: to have their want twisted into a mockery of the writer's intent.

Using a pair of red rubies gained from their dealings and combat with the giants and dwarves of the mountains and the Amazulu of the jungle, the party gains archway to the River Styx which runs beneath the basement of the castle, and is overrun by eerie spirits and the undead - and guarded past the three-headed dog Cerberus, in-game known as Spot. In that location, they eventually meet the lost Rex and Queen, and the King'south lover, Rebecca. The King, having used the cursed Catholic Forge to wish himself immortal, suffers the Bane of living forever as a vampire, unable to feel whatsoever human emotion. He attacks the party and drinks their claret, and leaves them weakened, just live.

The party too meets the long dead Queen, whose spirit still haunts the world. She relates the story of how she was forced to exist impregnated by a demon at the Male monarch's command, and subsequently she gave birth to the half-demon beast Rebecca, the King took the young girl as his lover, then ordered the Queen put to decease. Her vengeful spirit gives the party a argent cross and instructs them to utilise it to kill both the King and Rebecca.

In actuality, her story is untrue. The Male monarch, in fact, took Rebecca in every bit his own, when a holy man known only as the Vicar and his betrothed, Annie, left her in his care. This caretaker human relationship eventually developed into a romantic one. The Queen'south decease was not by the Male monarch'south order, and was in fact her ain doing. Jealous at having been tossed aside for the young girl equally the King'south lover, the Queen used the Cosmic Forge and wrote of the decease of the "witch," which the Bane interpreted as meaning herself, and she slipped and fell on her ain knife.

Finally, the party meets Rebecca, who hypnotizes them and brings them to meet the King a 2nd fourth dimension. The story branches from here, depending on whether the party believed the lies of the Queen. If they did, they still take the silvery cross given to them by the Queen, the King burns himself upon it, and the party is thrown into prison. If they did not believe the Queen and threw the cantankerous away, the Male monarch drinks his fill up of blood, then throws the party into prison anyway.[iv] The selection the political party makes becomes much more of import later, later they make their escape from the prison.

After eliminating the physical course of Xorphitus, they enter a final meeting with the Rex. If the political party disbelieved the Queen and discarded the cross, the King relates to the party his struggles with a life of no emotion, so kills himself by thrusting a holy stake of wood into his own eye. Rebecca appears afterward, and asks the party to take care of both the Cosmic Forge and her half-blood brother, the dragon Bela, who was built-in of an matter betwixt the Queen and the Vicar.

When Rebecca first appears, if the party says, "I love y'all," she volition requite them a diamond ring. This ring has fantabulous healing and defensive stats, and can be used in Wizardry Vii to acquire some of the strongest items in the game, and can be returned to Bela in Wizardry eight for a massive experience bonus and his thanks.

Returning to the branching story line, a party allied with the Queen is forced to fight the King, and on the more difficult game settings, his lover Rebecca. As vampires, the two of them may but be damaged by holy stakes of wood and holy water. After his death, the spirit of the King relates his struggle, and and so disappears.

After the King is dead, either by his own manus or by the party'south, the chamber of the Cosmic Forge is finally revealed earlier them. If the party decides to secure it, a voice says, "I'll have that!" (this is the voice of Aletheides, a cyborg who returns in Wizardry VII and 8). At this point, a screen appears to tell the role player to save a savegame for use in the sequel, and is so transported back to the forest outside the prison so the party can continue to train for the sequel, or simply adventure.

If the party does not take the pen when prompted, they continue on through some other door to run into Bela, and the final story branch occurs here. If the party did not believe the Queen and did non kill the King and Rebecca, Bela is elated at having new company. Together, if the player so wishes, the dragon and the party enter the mouth of a spaceship and take off for the stars to hunt Aletheides. On the other hand, a political party that believed the Queen is forced into combat with a vengeful Bela. After killing him, they may enter the rima oris of the spaceship on their own, and boom off into the stars by themselves.

A shipbound party that goes with Bela meets the Umpani in the next game, while a shipbound party that goes without him will cease up captives, and unwilling servants, of the Dark Savant and the T'Rang.

The origins of the spaceship are explained by Bela during the story path where the party befriends him. He obviously made information technology through instruction gained from an interstellar communication device from the Umpani, a race prominently featured in Wizardry 7 and 8. He too says that information technology is powered by the remains of the dinosaurs in the forest, i.due east. oil/gasoline. Also, if the political party refuses Bela's offer to travel the stars, he offers them the cardinal to the castle so that the political party may return to the archway where the game began. He then asks them to turn the lights out when they're done.

Endings [edit]

In all, there are three unlike endings to the game:

  • The "Bela" ending, which requires dropping the silvery cross before meeting the King for the 2nd time (and therefore, disbelieving the Queen), then accepting Bela's offer to chase Aletheides.
  • The "Transport" catastrophe, which requires belongings on to the argent cantankerous when coming together the Rex for the second fourth dimension (and therefore, assertive the Queen), then choosing to board the spaceship subsequently killing Bela.
  • The "Catholic Forge" catastrophe, completely independent of whether the political party believed the Queen, which is achieved by trying to take the Cosmic Forge when prompted.

Reception [edit]

Calculator Gaming World 'southward Marc Clupper in 1991 praised the game's detailed weapons and skills, user interface, graphics, digitized audio, and not-grid maps. He concluded that Bane was "a triumphant celebration of the Wizardry heritage" that would "repeat the glory of its predecessor".[5] The mag'due south Scorpia that yr and in 1993 described the game equally "weak in parts, only better than Wizardry V".[half dozen] [7] The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #168 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[eight] The Lessers reviewed the Macintosh version of the game in Dragon #174, giving that version of the game 4 out of 5 stars.[9]

In 2013, Wizardry Half dozen was ported for modernistic systems and re-released on Steam by Night Dive Studios.[10]

Awards and honors [edit]

  • Strategy Plus Magazine, 1991, Best Role Playing Game.
  • Calculator Gaming Earth, Apr 1991, nominated for Role-Playing Game of the year.[xi]

Reviews [edit]

  • Zero (Jun, 1992)[12]
  • CU Amiga (Jun, 1992)[thirteen]
  • Amiga Mania (Jul, 1992)[xiv]
  • Amiga Joker (April, 1991)[fifteen]
  • Amiga Action (Aug, 1992)[xvi]
  • Raze (Apr, 1991)[17]
  • Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft (1992)[18]
  • Amiga Format (Jul, 1992)[19]
  • ACE (Avant-garde Computer Entertainment) (May, 1991)[20]
  • ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) (Feb, 1991)[21]
  • ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) (Sep, 1991)
  • Enchanted Realms (Mar, 1991)

References [edit]

  1. ^ DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. (2003). Loftier score!: the illustrated history of electronic games (2 ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 157. ISBN0-07-223172-six.
  2. ^ Clupper, Marc (February 1991). "Wizardry Forges into the 21st Century - Sir-Tech'due south Blight of the Cosmic Forge". Computer Gaming World. No. 79. Golden Empire Publications, Inc. pp. thirty–32. ISSN 0744-6667. Retrieved 2019-07-14 .
  3. ^ Barton, Matt. "The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part 2: The Gilt Historic period (1985-1993)". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2009-07-09 .
  4. ^ "Playmaster's Companion, The Official Hint Guide". Dog & Panda. Retrieved 2009-07-09 .
  5. ^ Clupper, Marc (February 1991). "Wizardry Forges into the 21st Century / Sir-Tech's Bane of the Cosmic Forge". Reckoner Gaming World. No. 79. p. 30. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  6. ^ Scorpia (October 1991). "C*R*P*G*Due south / Computer Role-Playing Game Survey". Reckoner Gaming World. No. 87. p. 16. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  7. ^ Scorpia (October 1993). "Scorpia'southward Magic Scroll Of Games". Computer Gaming Earth. No. 111. pp. 34–fifty. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  8. ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (April 1991). "The Role of Computers". Dragon. No. 168. pp. 47–54.
  9. ^ Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (October 1991). "The Role of Computers". Dragon. No. 174. pp. 57–64.
  10. ^ "GameBanshee".
  11. ^ Staff (November 1991). "Computer Gaming Globe's 1991 Games of the Year Awards". Figurer Gaming World. No. 88. Gold Empire Publications, Inc. pp. 38–xl, 58.
  12. ^ "Nix Magazine Issue 32". June 1992.
  13. ^ "Bane of the Cosmic Forge review from CU Amiga (Jun 1992) - Amiga Mag Rack".
  14. ^ "Wizardry 6: Bane of the Catholic Forge review from Amiga Mania (Jul 1992) - Amiga Mag Rack".
  15. ^ http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/baneofco.htm#baneofthecosmicforgeaj
  16. ^ "Wizardry: Bane of the Catholic Forge review from Amiga Activeness 35 (Aug 1992) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  17. ^ "RAZE - Issue 06 (1991-04)(Newsfield Publishing)(GB)". April 1991.
  18. ^ "Amiga Joker Amiga Joker Sonderheft Nr.three - Rollenspiele Page scans - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  19. ^ "Wizardry: Bane of the Catholic Forge review from Amiga Format 36 (Jul 1992) - Amiga Mag Rack".
  20. ^ "Wizardry 6 review from ACE: Advanced Estimator Entertainment 44 (May 1991) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  21. ^ http://world wide web.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=3173

External links [edit]

  • Wizardry Half dozen: Blight of the Cosmic Forge at MobyGames
  • Wizardry Vi: Blight of the Cosmic Forge at Hall of Light: Database of Amiga Games

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry_VI:_Bane_of_the_Cosmic_Forge

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